As work continues on the state budget, education and finance officials told California legislators on Thursday that taxpayer funding for Proposition 98, which funds K-12 education ...

California Democratic leaders likely won't want to keep the top-two primary system or the independent redistricting commission after this year.

The Supreme Court ruled, and Governor Hair-Gel got his wish. I didn’t think it would happen, but here we are: the Supreme Court drove the final nail in the coffin of the Congressional Republican ...

Turmoil in the California Democratic Party could undo key political reforms — the top-two primary system and redistricting by an independent commission.

Cabinet firings | Thankful farewell | Wasted treasure. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for March 11, 2026.

Sergey Brin, president of Alphabet and co-founder of Google Inc., is leading the opposition to California's proposed wealth tax. If all the statewide bond and tax measures being floated hit the ...

Hakeem Jeffries, the Democratic House minority leader, is responding to the decision by Rep. Kevin Kiley to leave the Republican Party and become an independent.

Lawyers and doctors oppose Uber’s proposed California ballot initiative, which would cap contingency fees and limit ...

HHIC:CA ETF review: 13–14% estimated yield via 25% leverage and covered calls on Canadian commodity stocks. Read more macro analysis here.

The official lineup for the UFC’s much-ballyhooed White House event was recently revealed and the early betting odds are ...

Three Democrats and two Republicans are in a statistical tie in the California governor's race. The top two vote-getters in the June primary will move on to the November general election to lead the ...